This work is featured in the online catalogue Renoir Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago, the second volume in the Art Institute’s scholarly digital series on the Impressionist circle. The catalogue offers in-depth curatorial and technical entries on 25 artworks by Pierre-Auguste Renoir in the museum’s collection; entries feature interactive and layered high-resolution imaging, previously unpublished technical photographs, archival materials, and documentation relating to each artwork.

Gloria Groom and Douglas Druick, with the assistance of Dorota Chudzicka and Jill Shaw, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago/Kimbell Art Museum, 2008), p. 83, cat. 35 (ill.). Simultaneously published as Gloria Groom and Douglas Druick, with the assistance of Dorota Chudzicka and Jill Shaw, The Age of Impressionism at the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2008), p. 83, cat. 35 (ill.).

[3] According to the Durand-Ruel Archives, Renoir’s “Chrysanthèmes, 1882” (New York Stock no. 1721—New York Photo No. A 652) was sold by Durand-Ruel, New York, to Martin A. Ryerson, on February 17, 1915, for “7.500,00$”; as confirmed by Caroline Durand-Ruel Godfroy, Durand-Ruel Archives, to the Art Institute of Chicago, Dec. 13, 1994, curatorial object file, Art Institute of Chicago. See also Paul-Louis Durand-Ruel, Durand-Ruel Archives, to Gloria Groom, Apr. 2, 2014, e-mail correspondence, curatorial object file, Art Institute of Chicago, which states: “vendu à Martin A. Ryerson le 17 février 1915 pour $7 500.” There is a Durand-Ruel label (see fig. 15.33 in Other Documentation) on the verso of the painting identifying it as no. 1721, as well as a label (see fig. 15.34 in Other Documentation) identifying it as Durand-Ruel Photo No. A 652. According to a letter from E. C. Holston to Martin A. Ryerson on Durand-Ruel letterhead, dated Chicago 11 [sic], 1915, the “asking price” was $9,000 and the “net price for Mr. Ryerson” was $7,800; photocopy in curatorial object file, Art Institute of Chicago. According to Paul-Louis Durand-Ruel, Durand-Ruel Archives, to Gloria Groom, Apr. 2, 2014, e-mail correspondence, curatorial object file, the Art Institute of Chicago, a letter sent from Durand-Ruel, New York (Joseph Durand-Ruel), to Durand Ruel, Paris (Georges Durand-Ruel), on February 16, 1915, clarifies the discrepancy in price: “Mr. E. C. Holston [the director of Durand-Ruel, New York] is on his way back from Chicago. He has sold to Mr. Ryerson the following pictures: photo 7135, Monet, Jardin de Monet, $ 7 500—photo A 652, Renoir, Chrysanthèmes, $ 7 500—photo A 1179, Monet, Peupliers, $ 5 000—photo 1130, Monet, Pourville, $ 8 000—photo 7635, André, Provence, $ 500, making a total of $ 28 500. Our asking price was higher, but I thought it better to accept a reduction rather than to miss the sale.” A purchase receipt on Durand-Ruel letterhead, dated Feb. 17, 1915, includes this painting as one of a number sold by Durand-Ruel, New York, to M. A. Ryerson; photocopy in curatorial object file, Art Institute of Chicago. This painting was on loan from Martin A. Ryerson to the Art Institute of Chicago, intermittently, by 1921, according to Museum Registration Department Artists Sheets, on file in Museum Registration, Art Institute of Chicago.